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Alliteration by Letter - C

Based on the clues, name these alliterative answers that start with the letter C.
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First submittedSeptember 19, 2013
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Clue
Answer
Massachusetts peninsula
Cape Cod
Another name for global warming
Climate Change
He "Discovered" the New World
Christopher Columbus
Slices of sandwich meat
Cold Cuts
Spun sugar
Cotton Candy
There's no cure for this
Common Cold
Actor who had a Hitler mustache
Charlie Chaplin
Group who builds runways
to attract planes filled with goods
Cargo Cult
Table game whose board
is a six-sided star
Chinese Checkers
Harry Potter's first kiss
Cho Chang
Schoolroom joker
Class Clown
Clue
Answer
San Francisco trolley
Cable Car
She designed the "little black dress"
Coco Chanel
Time-keeping device featuring a bird
Cuckoo Clock
Something grown for export,
such as coffee or tobacco
Cash Crop
It used to be made with cocaine
Coca Cola
U.S. President of the 1920s
Calvin Coolidge
Naval mascot of a breakfast cereal
Cap'n Crunch
He did "The Twist"
Chubby Checker
Where you might play golf or tennis
Country Club
Popular cookie variety
Chocolate Chip
"Friends" actress
Courteney Cox
BlendedCow
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Level 44
Sep 20, 2013
100% 2:08
ignorred
+1
Level 64
Jan 2, 2019
You got cargo cult? That one was insane
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Aug 28, 2019
It's not that obscure - check out John Frum
Findlay
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Level 82
Dec 7, 2021
I got cargo cult easily, but I didn't get 100%. I'm kinda shocked it's so low - it's rare for an answer to be below 10% in a quiz of this size.
PorcNBeanz
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Level 57
Sep 20, 2013
"There's no cure for this"....couldn't it be colon cancer, cervical cancer, etc? There's not cure for those either.
finglehorn
+7
Level 63
Oct 21, 2013
i tried colon cancer too
grantdon
+2
Level 73
Apr 17, 2017
I would suggest that chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery can all be used to cure cancers
jd2001wizard
+6
Level 65
Jun 2, 2017
Yes, cancers are definitely curable (not 100% of the time, of course, but definitely curable). The common cold is not -- only can treat the symptoms until it runs its course.
Susie222
+5
Level 59
Oct 21, 2013
Since alliteration has to do with how a word sounds not the letter it starts with, some of the answers are actually alliteration for phrases starting with "ch."
buck1017
+1
Level 77
Oct 21, 2013
but the title of the quiz is "alliteration by letter c" not "alliteration by the a hard c sound"
tigon05
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Level 58
Apr 16, 2014
Alliteration doesn't have to sound the same, see definition below.

al·lit·er·a·tion

əˌlitəˈrāSHən

noun

1.

the occurrence of the same LETTER OR sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

JWC1202
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Level 74
Feb 7, 2018
Although Charlie Chaplin still fits the category, I would say that climate change does not. They begin with the same letter, true, but they are not actually alliterative.
Senlac
+2
Level 47
May 17, 2016
Can you also accept "Custard Cream" for chocolate chip?
grantdon
+4
Level 73
Apr 17, 2017
Or just "choc chip"
PantsLobbyist
+1
Level 95
Jul 31, 2017
Coca-Cola was never made with cocaine; it was made from the same plant as cocaine, but not cocaine itself.
LVSAS
+5
Level 43
Sep 21, 2017
"but the drink undeniably contained some cocaine in its early days."
Algernon
+4
Level 72
Dec 31, 2017
Not sure we have Cap'n Crunch in Britain, and where the hell do Cargo Cults exist. That's totally new to me. The whole idea behind it seems nonsensical.
stone222
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Level 48
Sep 24, 2018
cargo cults are in some way out islands, south pacific i think, dating from when the US came and handed out all the goodies... after the war, the locals laid out runways so the generosity would resume... one lot even worship prince philip, who visited one island and gave out gifts (they are still waiting for his return)
ruftytufty
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Level 79
Oct 9, 2018
I think they may be disappointed. Especially if he does.
TWM03
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Level 70
Oct 9, 2018
They're basically religions that have been set up on the basis that when Western people came to the islands they were brought in food and other supplies by plane without ever seeming to do any recognisable work. People on the islands assumed that in order for more planes to arrive they had to do what the Westerners were doing, and the main thing they noticed them doing with obvious consequence was building runways for the planes to land on. So they built runways for more planes to come and land on, but of course none came. Lots of them are still going today. Other examples of ideas that seem nonsensical (and are if you understand what is going on, but seem intuitively right if you don't) are tribes that believe that batteries are sacred because they make machines work (seemingly by magic). One tribe in particular sometimes tattoos themselves with battery acid for this reason. The beliefs are pretty bizarre, though I would argue that the same can be said of most Western religions.
roleybob
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Level 75
Jun 26, 2019
Indeed - "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Pookminstamum
+1
Level 65
Jun 4, 2023
This is so 😥
sackobones
+1
Level 46
Jan 1, 2018
Chamber of Commerce seems like it would have a place in this quiz.
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 86
Jul 17, 2018
I think the "of" may disqualify it.
halpie
+4
Level 77
Jan 2, 2018
I was really hoping that Captain Caveman would be on this quiz.
tschutzer
+7
Level 91
Jan 6, 2018
Sent down another rabbit hole learning about Melanesian ritualistic runway builders. Only here on Jetpunk does that sentence make sense.
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 86
Jul 17, 2018
Yeah, that one was way out of left field.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Aug 1, 2018
Never heard of them. Colombian cartel was the only guess I could come up with.
twained
+4
Level 61
Oct 8, 2018
The pleasure of getting the cargo cult question balanced by the pain of missing another Harry Potter question (which I will always and forever miss).
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Oct 8, 2018
Unless you read the books... They are a good read (once you get past the first half of the first book).
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Oct 5, 2019
No thanks.
rama2008
+1
Level 67
Oct 8, 2018
Could you also accept fairy floss for the spun sugar question. It is what we call it here in Australia, and according to Wikipedia it's original name, as introduced at the World's fair in the 1900s. It is also alliterative.

Thanks

Smarterthantheaverage
+5
Level 59
Oct 8, 2018
Yeah, but it doesn't start with C!
PotatoBoy
+1
Level 66
Oct 8, 2018
Did anyone else call it Chinese Chess or was it just me?
interopia
+1
Level 85
Oct 8, 2018
That is actually a completely different game, which has a square board.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Oct 8, 2018
Cash crops don't have to be exported. They are anything sold for commercial use rather than personal use by the grower. Around here if someone says "cash crop" they are referring to illegal marijuana.
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 89
Oct 8, 2018
I don't know how I somehow missed seeing the word "naval" in that cereal clue, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much time thinking of different ways to spell Count Chocula.
Soph1
+1
Level 49
Oct 8, 2018
That's a trolley? Now imagining what I know as a trolley going up and down on a wire...

I guessed California cart

Zongora
+2
Level 57
Oct 16, 2018
Coco Chanel is not alliterative. Perhaps when creating a quiz, one should always remove one item before posting. :-)
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 26, 2019
ad-litera not ad-sonant or something
CricketLegend06
+1
Level 80
Nov 24, 2019
Read Fact 320 (page 64). It helps with this quiz
Westgirl
+1
Level 55
Nov 30, 2019
Candy floss in england...wdnt that be accepted?
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Mar 11, 2020
I was trying to name various cancers and then I'm like "Oh common cold"
BozzieBear
+4
Level 75
Sep 1, 2020
Neither Coco Chanel nor Climate Change are alliterations.

Quoting from an authoritative source, "Although alliteration often involves repetition of letters, most importantly, it is a repetition of sounds."

Thus hard-C, soft-C is not alliterative. The site actually offers "Cheerful cop" as a non-example of alliteration.

AlexThirkell
+1
Level 75
Dec 30, 2020
Yeh, there just weren't enough real alliterations I imagine.
tommuelmerson
+1
Level 58
Jun 15, 2021
You might want to reword the Charlie Chaplin one. He didn't have a moustache, he used a fake one when he played his 'Tramp' character.
shellee
+2
Level 55
Oct 4, 2021
Climate Crisis?
PynchonsOverbite
+1
Level 91
Feb 15, 2022
I've lost count of all the quizzes on which I've gotten everything but the @#%*! Harry Potter question.
Pearl2270
+1
Level 79
Dec 8, 2022
Never in my life heard of a cargo cult. Interesting.
FyreSt0rm
+1
Level 44
Mar 18, 2024
I was trying to think of cancers for "There's no cure for this". Now I just feel a little silly
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